10 Pancake Quotes, Free Stack for National Pancake Day

Flapjacks fans rejoice! Today, Tuesday, March 3, is National Pancake Day, and to celebrate the occasion—their 10th annual National Pancake Day—IHOP restaurants are offering guests a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes all day. In our effort to further enrich the depth of your pancakes loving experience, we’re serving you 10 epic pancake quotes, fresh from the griddle.

Since it launched its National Pancake Day celebration in 2006, IHOP restaurants have raised almost $16 million to support charities in their local communities. Today, visitors at IHOP restaurants all over the country are marking this “Decade of Giving” with free pancakes. In return for the free pancakes, IHOP is asking guests to consider donating to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals or other designated local charities. The restaurant hopes to raise $3.5 million for charity this year.

Unfortunately, the closest IHOP to the East End is in Patchogue (31 Oak Street). They also have locations in Port Jefferson Station (513 Patchogue Road), Ronkonkoma (339 Portion Road) and Hauppauge (666 Motor Parkway).

Before delivering our wonderful pancake quotes, we suggest you visit John’s Pancake House in Montauk (The Plaza, 721 Main Street, 631-668-2383). They make excellent crepes—grown-up, French-people pancakes—but E.T. pancakes, featuring chocolate and peanut butter chips, might be suited for this very American day.

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Now, on to the quotes:

10. “Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher’s stone.”  –Anton Chekhov

9. “Blood is thicker than water but maple syrup is thicker than blood so technically pancakes are more important than family.”  –@cervixsmash (Twitter)

8. “I don’t have to tell you I love you. I fed you pancakes.” –Kathleen Flinn, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family

6.“My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.” –Ahmet Zappa

5.“Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.” –Olivia Wilde

4.“Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Back up a bit now. When are the pancakes coming in the mail?” –Homer Simpson (The Simpsons, Episode 4F08 “The Twisted World of Marge Simpson”)

3.“I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.” –Kelly Ripa

2.“The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.” –W.C. Fields

1.“Pancakes, pancakes…PANCAKES!” –Dennis from Cabin Fever (2002)

Poor Bert told young Dennis “No pancakes,” but it didn’t seem to matter, did it? Could there be a better pancake quote? We didn’t think so either. That’s why we’ve also included the video below.